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1. In the Nature of Cities

   Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism

   Edited by Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika, Erik Swyngedouw

   Series: Questioning Cities

   The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. This has been prompted by the recognition that the material conditions that comprise urban environments are not independent from social...

   Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge
2. City of Flows

   Modernity, Nature, and the City

   By Maria Kaika

   Typically, cities and nature are perceived as geographic opposites, cities being manufactured social creations, and nature being outside of human construction. Through a historical geography of water in the modern city, Kaika shows that this is not the case. Rather, nature and the modern city are...

   Published December 26th 2004 by Routledge